by John Gibbons | Mar 6, 2016 | Footie
I HAD written this introduction in my head on about 70 and it was moody as anything. It talked about consistency and how it separates winners from everyone else. It also talked about how the real problem, more than consistency, was quality and that the team looked...
by Neil Atkinson | Mar 6, 2016 | Footie
THERE was a line running through my head before the winner. It was this: “The record books don’t record everything.” This while Liverpool are toiling at 1-1 and down to 10. Thinking that will look like Liverpool have failed to back up one good win...
by Rob Gutmann | Mar 5, 2016 | Footie
CRYSTAL Palace — the team of the 80s. That become the media’s billing for Terry Venables’ bright young Cockney things who went from promotion to the top flight to being considered the fresh new dynamic face of modern football in a short space of time, at...
by Michael Nevin | Mar 4, 2016 | Footie
WEDNESDAY’S win over Manchester City was a tonic after the disappointment of Wembley, but as we left Anfield some long held concerns came to mind. A grinning Jürgen Klopp — clearly buoyed by the best home performance of the season — was on the pitch...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 3, 2016 | Podcast
NEIL ATKINSON hosts our Radio City Talk show as Karl Coppack, John Gibbons and Adam Smith look back on Liverpool’s victory over Manchester City. Focus comes on James Milner, Jon Flanagan and Kolo Toure as well as the way in which Klopp’s men vanquished...
by Ian Salmon | Mar 3, 2016 | Footie
I DON’T have heroes. I’m 52 — I’m too old for heroes now. I can see the faults in most people — that they’re just people with the same faults as the rest of us and the same ability to be pretty decent or a bit of a knob depending on...
by Melissa Reddy | Mar 3, 2016 | Footie
“WE made it clear from the first second that it will be very difficult for City.” Park the scoreline for a second. Wait a minute with the goals. Just hold off on the fact it could have been more. Breathe in the dominance. Stretch in the dominance. Shake...
by Neil Atkinson | Mar 3, 2016 | Footie
YOU trudge out of Wembley. You have a face on. The face on. The face of yours that your loved ones know. It’s the football. It was more than that though, you know. It was the feeling you were part of an eternally losing battle. Against the system. Against the...
by John Gibbons | Mar 2, 2016 | Footie
THE players and manager deserve great credit to go from Sunday to that. Perhaps the Manchester City players, just like their supporters, failed to turn up. But they are still big and good and need beating — and how they were beaten. The tone was actually set by...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 2, 2016 | Podcast, TAW Player
NEIL ATKINSON, Phil Blundell, Paul Senior and Philippa Smallwood are up in the tower for a big post-match review after a thumping 3-0 victory over Manchester City by three goals to nil at Anfield. In a free clip from the show, Neil, Philippa, Phil and Paul talk about...
